"Three writers, all important and prominent - John, Paul and the author of Hebrews -all say in varying terminology that man and nature and the whole universe were made by Christ and for Christ, that a destiny is therefore written into the structure of new things, and that structure and that destiny is a Christian destiny. Whom he did "predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Rom. 8:29) We are destined by our makeup to be made into his image. When we work in his way we work well; when we work in some other way we work our own ruin.
Can anything more important and more consequential be said about human nature and human destiny? I f so, I do not know of it, nor have I heard of it. It sounds too good to be true, but it is too good not to be true."
from: The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
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